Parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands (region)
The region[nb 1] of West Midlands is divided into 59 parliamentary constituencies which is made up of 35 borough constituencies and 24 county constituencies. Since the general election of December 2019,[1] 43 are represented by Conservative MPs, 15 by Labour MPs, and 1 by a Liberal Democrat MP.
Constituencies
† Conservative ‡ Labour ¤ Liberal Democrat
Proposed boundary changes
See 2023 Periodic Review of Westminster constituencies for further details.
Following the abandonment of the Sixth Periodic Review (the 2018 review), the Boundary Commission for England formally launched the 2023 Review on 5 January 2021 and published their initial proposals on 8 June. The Commission calculated that the number of seats to be allocated to the West Midlands region will decrease by 2, from 59 to 57.[7]
The following seats are proposed:[8]
Constituency | Electorate | Ceremonial county | Local authority |
---|---|---|---|
Bedworth and North Warwickshire CC | 70,245 | Warwickshire | North Warwickshire / Nuneaton and Bedworth |
Birmingham Edgbaston BC | 71,354 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Erdington BC | 75,925 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Hall Green BC | 75,781 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Hodge Hill BC | 76,922 | West Midlands | Birmingham / Solihull |
Birmingham Ladywood BC | 76,585 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Northfield BC | 73,483 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Perry Barr BC | 74,979 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Selly Oak BC | 76,285 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Birmingham Yardley BC | 71,912 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Bloxwich and Brownhills BC | 76,751 | West Midlands | Walsall |
Bromsgrove CC | 75,305 | Worcestershire | Bromsgrove |
Burton CC | 75,460 | Staffordshire | East Staffordshire |
Cannock Chase CC | 75,582 | Staffordshire | Cannock Chase |
Coventry East BC | 73,389 | West Midlands | Coventry |
Coventry North West BC | 73,431 | West Midlands | Coventry |
Coventry South BC | 70,998 | West Midlands | Coventry |
Droitwich and Evesham CC | 74,345 | Worcestershire | Wychavon |
Dudley BC | 71,083 | West Midlands | Dudley |
Halesowen BC | 69,907 | West Midlands | Dudley / Sandwell |
Hereford and South Herefordshire CC | 71,438 | Herefordshire | Herefordshire |
Kenilworth and Southam CC | 74,107 | Warwickshire | Rugby / Stratford-on-Avon / Warwick |
Kidderminster CC | 77,015 | Worcestershire | Wyre Forest |
Kingswinford and South Staffordshire CC | 71,896 | Staffordshire / West Midlands | Dudley / South Staffordshire |
Lichfield CC | 73,844 | Staffordshire | East Staffordshire / Lichfield |
Ludlow and Bridgnorth CC | 77,034 | Shropshire | Shropshire |
Meriden CC | 74,211 | West Midlands | Solihull |
Newcastle-under-Lyme CC | 70,025 | Staffordshire | Newcastle-under-Lyme |
Newport and Wellington CC | 76,143 | Shropshire | Shropshire / Telford and Wrekin |
North Herefordshire CC | 70,581 | Herefordshire | Herefordshire |
North Shropshire CC | 77,052 | Shropshire | Shropshire |
Nuneaton CC | 70,335 | Warwickshire | North Warwickshire / Nuneaton and Bedworth |
Redditch CC | 69,921 | Worcestershire | Redditch / Wychavon |
Rugby CC | 72,603 | Warwickshire | Nuneaton and Bedworth / Rugby |
Shrewsbury CC | 75,139 | Shropshire | Shropshire |
Smethwick and Rowley Regis BC | 71,249 | West Midlands | Sandwell |
Solihull BC | 70,537 | West Midlands | Solihull |
Stafford CC | 70,537 | Staffordshire | Newcastle-under-Lyme / Stafford |
Staffordshire Moorlands CC | 70,113 | Staffordshire | Staffordshire Moorlands |
Stoke-on-Trent Central BC | 70,550 | Staffordshire | Stoke-on-Trent |
Stoke-on-Trent North BC | 69,821 | Staffordshire | Newcastle-under-Lyme / Stoke-on-Trent |
Stoke-on-Trent South CC | 69,831 | Staffordshire | Stafford / Staffordshire Moorlands / Stoke-on-Trent |
Stone and Great Wyrley CC | 70,701 | Staffordshire | South Staffordshire / Stafford |
Stourbridge BC | 69,840 | West Midlands | Dudley |
Stratford-on-Avon CC | 72,388 | Warwickshire | Stratford-on-Avon |
Sutton Coldfield BC | 74,584 | West Midlands | Birmingham |
Tamworth CC | 74,742 | Staffordshire | Lichfield / Tamworth |
Telford BC | 70,768 | Shropshire | Telford and Wrekin |
Walsall BC | 71,237 | West Midlands | Walsall |
Warwick and Leamington BC | 72,784 | Warwickshire | Warwick |
West Bromwich East BC | 71,832 | West Midlands | Sandwell |
West Bromwich West BC | 74,140 | West Midlands | Dudley / Sandwell |
West Worcestershire CC | 76,638 | Worcestershire | Malvern Hills / Wychavon |
Wolverhampton North East BC | 70,449 | West Midlands | Walsall / Wolverhampton |
Wolverhampton South East BC | 75,685 | West Midlands | Walsall / Wolverhampton |
Wolverhampton West BC | 75,592 | West Midlands | Wolverhampton |
Worcester BC | 73,928 | Worcestershire | Worcester |
Results history
Primary data source: House of Commons research briefing - General election results from 1918 to 2019[9]
2019
The number of votes cast for each political party who fielded candidates in constituencies comprising the West Midlands region in the 2019 general election were as follows:
Party | Votes | % | Change from 2017 | Seats | Change from 2017 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Conservative | 1,449,289 | 53.4% | 4.4% | 44 | 9 |
Labour | 918,123 | 33.9% | 8.6% | 15 | 9 |
Liberal Democrats | 213,903 | 7.9% | 3.5% | 0 | 0 |
Greens | 80,556 | 3.0% | 1.3% | 0 | 0 |
Brexit | 36,646 | 1.4% | new | 0 | 0 |
Others | 13,437 | 0.4% | 2.0% | 0 | 0 |
Total | 2,711,954 | 100.0 | 59 |
Percentage votes
Key:
CON - Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966
LAB - Labour Party
LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992
UKIP/Br - UK Independence Party 2010 to 2017 (included in Other up to 2005 and in 2019); Brexit Party in 2019
Green - Green Party of England and Wales (included in Other up to 2005)
Seats
Key:
CON - Conservative Party, including National Liberal Party up to 1966
LAB - Labour Party (1997 includes the Speaker, Betty Boothroyd)
LIB - Liberal Party up to 1979; SDP-Liberal Alliance 1983 & 1987; Liberal Democrats from 1992
OTH - 1945 - Independent (William Brown); 2001 & 2005 - Independent Kidderminster Hospital and Health Concern (Dr Richard Taylor)
See also
- List of United Kingdom Parliament constituencies
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Herefordshire and Worcestershire
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Shropshire
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Staffordshire
- List of parliamentary constituencies in Warwickshire
- List of parliamentary constituencies in the West Midlands
Notes
- ^ See NUTS 1 statistical regions of England
- ^ BC denotes borough constituency, CC denotes county constituency.
- ^ The majority is the number of votes the winning candidate receives more than their nearest rival.
References
- ^ "2019 Election Results". BBC.
- ^ Baker, Carl; Uberoi, Elise; Cracknell, Richard (28 January 2020). "General Election 2019: full results and analysis".
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- ^ a b c "Birmingham Erdington Parliamentary by-election". Birmingham City Council. 3 March 2022. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
- ^ "North Shropshire 16-Dec-2021 By-election". UK Parliament. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ a b c McGuinness, Alan (17 December 2021). "North Shropshire: Liberal Democrats pull off shock win as Tory by-election defeat piles further pressure on Boris Johnson". Sky News. Archived from the original on 17 December 2021. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
- ^ "2023 Review". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 8 January 2021.
- ^ "Initial proposals for new Parliamentary constituency boundaries in the West Midlands region". Boundary Commission for England. Retrieved 21 November 2021.
- ^ Watson, Christopher; Uberoi, Elise; Loft, Philip (17 April 2020). "General election results from 1918 to 2019".
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